Kyoto Custom Highlight: Private Walking Tour with Licensed Guide

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Explore Kyoto your way with a private walking tour. Customize your itinerary and visit top landmarks with a licensed guide. Stress-free hotel meet-up included.

Duration: 8 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Kinkakuji Temple - Here is a sample itinerary for an 8-hour tour: Choose the places you would like to visit. Visit 1st place where you request
Optional : Enter the temple
Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine - Thousands of Torii shinto gate
Sannenzaka Ninenzaka - Beautiful traditional town with many stores
Kiyomizu-dera Temple - One of the most popular temple and world heritage.
optional : Enter the inside
Gion - Traditional Geisha (Maiko) performance area.
Bamboo Forest Street - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.

Ryoanji Temple - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

optional : Enter the inside

Sanjusangendo Temple - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.
optional : Enter the inside

Ginkakuji Temple - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.
optional : Enter the inside

Nishiki Market Shopping District - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.

Nijo Castle - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.
optional : Enter the inside

Pontocho District - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.

Tenryuji Temple - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.
optional : Enter the inside

Kyoto Imperial Palace - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.

Philosopher’s Walk - If you want to visit here, you can customize the itinerary.

Please feel free to let us know.

Monkey Park Iwatayama - We could include Monkey park in our customized itinerary. Please let us know if you are interested in.
optional : Enter the inside
Tofuku-ji Temple - We could include Tofukuji temple in our customized itinerary. Please let us know if you are interested in.
optional : Enter the inside

What's Included

Professional local guide
Private customized walking tour
Option to use public transportation or taxis
Choice of 4 or 8 hours
Hotel meet up (no car)

What's Not Included

Optional : Entrance fees (for yourself and guide)
Optional : Meal (for yourself and guide)
Optional : Transportation fee (for yourself and guide)

Additional Information

Take control of your sightseeing itinerary by booking this customised tour. Whether its a minimum of 4-hour or a full day trip consisting of 8 hours, visit all the sights you wish with a professional guide. Choose from an enormous range of cultural and historical landmarks and tick off your desired attractions all in one day! Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavillion), Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kiyomizu temple and Gion district are just a pocketful of destinations out of countless others. Wherever you request, we will do our best to accommodate you as well as possible. Hotel meet-up and drop-off are included to ensure you receive a totally stress-free experience.

A moderate amount of walking is involved. Please wear comfortable walking shoes
This is a walking tour. A private van is not included.
Public transportation or local taxis maybe used to transfer between spots.
We can customize the tour to accommodate your requests.
The tour will take place rain or shine.

Location

京都総合観光案内所「京なび」

Meet in front of Tourist Information in JR Kyoto Station.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Theosj2052dk

Jul 21, 2024

Truly Delightful Way to Spend a Day - My partner and I did the private 8h walking tour of Kyoto. Our guide, Osamu-san, was incredible! He came up with a detailed yet flexible plan ahead of time and was very communicative over email. In person, Osamu-san was kind, generous, and helpful in all things including langauge learning and better understanding of local customs and transportation. Our tour included historical places such as Togetsukyo bridge, Tenryuji temple, and Nonomiya shrine in the Arashiyama area, as well as Kinkakuji temple. Osamu-san has a wealth of knowledge about the history of all Kyoto landmarks big and small and he is a skilled storyteller. My partner and I had such a fulfilling day and would gladly do something like this again.

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Pattraa2024

Jul 21, 2024

Wonderful walking tour! - My partner and I went on a custom private walking tour with Osamu-san and it was amazing! Osamu-san is an extremely knowledgeable and kind guide. He was wonderful to talk to, and he answered all of our questions, whether it be about history, language, food, or day-to-day culture and manners. He showed us many amazing places and was very considerate of us every step of the way. We loved the tour and I would highly recommend Osamu-san to anyone!

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Vacationer723235

Jul 21, 2024

A+ tour of Kyoto’s big sites - Tour was amazing! Toshi was very knowledgable and customized the tour based on what we were interested in. Highly reccommend. Thank you, Toshi!

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Jody

Jul 17, 2024

Turbo tour of Kyoto - Super flexible tour group and guide accommodated our timing needs given cruise timing. We selected where we wanted to go and our very friendly and knowledgeable guide led the way and took great care of us. Ookini Kiyoto

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Hansbelindavisser

Jul 17, 2024

Great!! - We went on our KYOTO tour with our tour guide Kiyoto. It was great!! It was 33 degrees celsius and the humidity was 91 procent. Despite that it was super. We saw many things and our guide Kiyoto was very knowledgeable, kind and patient. If you go to Kyoto we really recommend this tour with Kiyoto!

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Linda_r

Jun 30, 2024

Kyoto day tour - We had an amazing day with Hiro, we manage to fit so much in and Hiro was so knowledgeable and super friendly. We thoroughly enjoyed this tour and would highly recommend.

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Fearless09173376483

Jun 24, 2024

Great overview of the city that adapted to our wants and likes - Our guide Kiyoto was both knowledgeable and figured out what we are excited to do and adjusted on the fly to meet our needs. Our kids are not always the easiest to impress but he kept them interested for 4 hours. Great overview of the city

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Kathy_k

Jun 23, 2024

Perfect - Perfect tour! We were able to do everything we wanted and our tour guides was a champ!!! Monkey Park was so much fun.

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Jenny_a

Jun 23, 2024

Great way to see Kyoto - We saw so much of Kyoto with our guide Toshi. He helped us navigate the buses and trains and put together a great itinerary of the highlights of Kyoto. We saw even more than we expected to. We walked a lot, so make sure to have comfy shoes. I would recommend this tour and our guide Toshi.

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